Zine and Comix Directories

Cornerfold is a New SBS website with publishing opportunities for Australian Zine and Comix makers!!

Cut ‘n’ Paste: is another online exhibition of Australia’s self-published zines and comix. Cut ‘n’ Paste also ran a national tour of Australia back in 1999 with a physical exhibition of the zines in their library. The site includes: a quality exhibition of zines and commix; an excellent resources and links page to all you ever wanted to know about zine publishing; and a directory of zine stores and distributors.
http://cutnpaste.va.com.au

The New Pollution: Australia's zine and comic anthology online, put together early 1998 by the Pod people, as part of the LOUD festival of media and the arts.
http://evolver.loud.org.au/nupoo/

See also: http://www.noise.net.au

Megazeen Two: A fanzine and comic book directory, produced by the Melbourne Fringe Festival a few years ago. Megazeen first came round as part of the 1995 Melbourne Fringe Festival, this is its second coming...

The Australian Zine Mailing List

Zeen Oz is a list for ozzie zinemakers and those interested in zines, to discuss whatever u like. The scenic backroad to the wild spaces places across our charcoalled country.

To subscribe, send an empty message to zines-subscribe@makelist.com
To unsubscribe, send a message to zines-unsubscribe@makelist.com  
List Owner:  zines-owner@makelist.com
List Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/zines/

QLD Zine and Comix Distributors

Personality Liberation Front Distribution
Brisbane based zine and DIY media distributor
contact kylie unigeek@yahoo.com
or mail to
PO BOX 3023
South Brisbane
QLD, 4101

Minced Meat Mailthing
PO Box 716
Fortitude Valley 4006

QLD Zine Racks/Stocking Stores

Rocking Horse Records
101 Adelaide St
Brisbane 4000
http://www.rockinghorse.net

Skinny’s
85 Elizabeth St
Brisbane 4000

Laughing Racoon
Beaudesert Road
Moorooka

Comic Warriors
Shop 18, Annerley Arcade
478 Ipswich Rd
Annerley
Ph: 3838 7362

Fat Comics
465 Oxley Rd
Sherwood
Ph: 3379 2299

Ace Comics
Level 1
43 Adelaide St
Brisbane
Ph: 3229 5197

Comics etc: 79-81 Elizabeth St CBD. Ph: 3229 4446

Other Zine Resources

http://www.javaturtle.com/links2002.html
A great site full of useful and informative links to Zines and Comix largely from Australia.

QUIZ RECOMMENDS!!

http://www.geocities.com/sevenuy/ of the infamous ‘No Frills’ Zine – one the best and most mashed up zines around today!

Comix Resources

Quick Draw Comic http://www.qdcomic.com/websight.html

QUIZ RECOMMENDS!!

Comix Australia http://comicsaustralia.com/index.php

Get your comic listed, the latest and best in Australia’s commix scene; has some great Guides, Info and on self-publishing of comix too.

Writers Resources

National Young Writers Festival: Australia's largest gathering of young writers and media makers. Unique, innovative and irreverent, the NYWF incorporates everything from traditional literature to self-publishing, comics, digital media, scriptwriting for film and television, magazines and the popular press, journalism, comedy, and academia. » Part of the this is not art festival.
address: youngwritersfestival.org
See also: http://www.ocatpod.org.au/

Culture Jamming, Pranking and Creactivism

QUIZ RECOMMENDS!!

http://www.theyesmen.org Interventionist specialists; jesters and general media activists – A DEFINITE MUST SEE – you too can be an official delegate of the WTO!

These sites rock! Take time to check them all out.

http://www.antimedia.net
http://www.dessertstorm.org
http://www.cleansurface.org
http://www.2600.net
http://www.dolearmy.org
http://www.ohmsnotbombs.org/
http://lab-rats.tripod.com/

Media Studies, Commentary and Criticism

Adbusters Culture Jammers
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
Media Watch - Transcripts of the ABC TV show which targeted shoddy journalism.
Michael Moore - Of The Awful Truth.

Do it Yourself

DIY Search : a site "dedicated to helping and enhancing the DIY community, as it pertains to the web"
http://www.diysearch.com

DIY Base : a resource guide for DIY culture
http://deterrent.bc.ca/diy.html

Blackout Books 'How To Do It': Definitely the most interesting DIY guide so far. Bill Gates beware! Start small - "How to advertise an event cheaply" - then get messy! - "How to pie someone in the face".

The Site: diy for geeks! From the sentimentally tacky "How to Create a Digital Photo Album Online" to the media-busting How to set up your own pirate radio station" to the truly nerdy "How to Understand Encryption Technology".

Copyright

Copy : Australian copyright and intellectual property law, organisations and resources
http://www.chickenfish.cc/copy/

The World of Copyright : Australia's Cultural Network copyright info, get a free copy of "Copyright Guidelines for Museums and Galleries in a Digital Environment' here.

The Australian Copyright Act legislation

The Viral Communications Anti-Copyright Policy : "if creativity is a field, copyright is the fence" John Oswald

Weaving Webs of Ownership : Deborah Halbert's dissertation on the history of copyright, the English and German experience of copyright, and copyright and the electronic age.

Negativland : the US band whose single "the Letter U and the number 2" saw U2 and Island Records mount a legal challenge over copyright violations.
http://www.negativland.com/